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Latest release of licensed socket server code: 6.2

2010-03-12T18:15:09+00:00

The latest release of the licensed version of the socket server framework is now available. The following changes were made to the libraries. Admin Library - 6.2 We now support Visual Studio 2010. At present the code has only been...

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Speeding up C++ builds

2010-03-01T11:49:37+00:00

I stumbled on an idea for speeding up C++ builds the other day and it's not something that I've considered before and it really does offer a considerable speed up so I think it may be worth considering in some...

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Happy Zeroth birthday Scott Holgate!

2010-01-25T07:00:00+00:00

My baby son Scott was born today, Jan 25th 2010, at 1.58am. He weighed 6lb 15oz and both he and his wonderful mother are doing fine....

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Performance improvements in the Socket Server Framework

2010-01-14T12:19:25+00:00

I'm just finishing a batch of work that will be included in the 6.2 release of my IOCP based, high performance windows client and server framework and which improves the performance of the framework. There are two main improvements; the...

]]> Posted by Len at 12:19 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Socket Servers ]]>

FILE_SKIP_COMPLETION_PORT_ON_SUCCESS and datagram socket read errors

2010-01-06T12:45:41+00:00

As I mentioned a while back I've been looking at incorporating some simple performance gains in the framework by following the advice given over at the Windows Server Performance Team Blog. Specifically the advice from part three of the "Designing...

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DevPartner Studio 9.1

2009-12-24T09:07:49+00:00

I've complained about DevPartner Studio enough in the past (here, here, here, etc.) that I thought I should write a positive blog posting since my recent experiences have been very positive. Some time ago I reported a bug in the...

]]> Posted by Len at 09:07 AM | Comments (0) | Categories: Geek Speak ]]>

Bug fix for obscure shutdown sequence race conditions

2009-12-23T16:50:15+00:00

Charles Dickens said it best in A Tale of Two Cities; "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of...

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Datagram filtering

2009-12-11T18:04:02+00:00

The filtering API that's built into the stream (i.e. TCP) side of the licensed framework is pretty powerful. It's what the OpenSSL, SChannel and SSPI Negotiate filters use to transform the data as it flows into and out of your...

]]> Posted by Len at 06:04 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Socket Servers ]]>

Writing a custom Wireshark dissector plugin

2009-11-26T12:05:06+00:00

I've been spending a little time recently writing a custom Wireshark dissector plugin for the UDT protocol. This didn't prove to be that difficult once I got over the initial problem of actually getting the Wireshark source to build with...

]]> Posted by Len at 12:05 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Geek Speak , Socket Servers ]]>

.Net 4.0 Hosting (again)

2009-11-25T18:04:15+00:00

As I mentioned a while back the CLR Hosting API has changed with .Net 4.0. The new API allows you much more flexibility in loading CLR runtimes and also allows you to load and run multiple different runtimes in a...

]]> Posted by Len at 06:04 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Socket Servers ]]>

An overview of features of the licensed Server Framework

2009-11-25T12:27:07+00:00

The licensed version of my freely available I/O Completion Port based, high performance, Windows networking framework provides a whole host of features that the free code doesn't; aside from performance improvements, bug fixes and an active support and development process....

]]> Posted by Len at 12:27 PM | Comments (2) | Categories: Socket Servers ]]>

Stream compression

2009-11-17T14:03:18+00:00

Compressing TCP (and reliable UDP) streams is one of the things that often comes up in discussion with clients and I've helped several people implement stream compression using the TCP stream filtering API that's part of the server framework. The...

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Latest release of licensed socket server code: 6.1.1

2009-11-16T12:06:45+00:00

The latest release of the licensed version of the socket server framework is now available. This release includes the following changes. Note that this is mainly a bug fix release. The following changes were made to the libraries. Admin Library...

]]> Posted by Len at 12:06 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Socket Servers ]]>

Talk to the bear

2009-11-05T22:00:46+00:00

In the great tradition of explaining your problem to someone else as a way of fixing it yourself without their help... I've nailed the rotating file log 16010101 bug! The problem was to do with the fact that when there...

]]> Posted by Len at 10:00 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: Socket Servers ]]>

Bugs

2009-11-05T19:29:20+00:00

It's been a bit of a week for bugs. First I had a bug report for the really rather old CodeProject socket server COM object. This allows people using VB to create a socket server that uses the free version...

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